On 5 June 2011 14:38, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote:
On 2011/06/05 12:30 (GMT+0100) Barney Carroll composed:
Sadly the only lesson we can take from this is that Tahoma has
too little in the way of letter-spacing to make for a pleasant web font.
Tahoma looks to me like little but
On 2011/06/06 12:46 (GMT+0100) Barney Carroll composed:
I'd recommend Lucida Sans Unicode as an
alternative to Tahoma — that's Sans Unicode as opposed to Grande, which
renders horrific on screen (particularly on PC).
I don't remember being able to notice any differences between Lucida
Felix Miata wrote:
I don't remember being able to notice any differences between Lucida
Grande and Lucida Sans Unicode on any machine I had both installed on,
though I've not checked in a while. OTOH, you probably won't find
Grande on any system that doesn't have Safari installed unless
Charles,
The problem with letter-spacing is that it will only acknowledge whole-pixel
differences, which is usually far too large a scale for copy text. I feel
your pain — I've often wanted to minutely adjust this for the sake of
readability. Sadly the only lesson we can take from this is that
On 2011/06/05 12:30 (GMT+0100) Barney Carroll composed:
Sadly the only lesson we can take from this is that Tahoma has
too little in the way of letter-spacing to make for a pleasant web font.
Tahoma looks to me like little but Verdana with letter spacing reduced to nil
and glyphs squeezed a
Hi list!
Facebook has a fixed-width layout so I decided to recreate its layout
using percentages:
http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2011/06/css-facebook-layout.html
As always, if you notice anything strange on IE, please report the
problem and the fix (if any).
Remember, I'm on a Mac. :-)
HTH
On 6/4/11 5:46 AM, Gabriele Romanato wrote:
Facebook has a fixed-width layout so I decided to recreate its layout
using percentages:
http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2011/06/css-facebook-layout.html
Gabriele Romanato
I guess its okay unless you bump into a maverick user. I did not look at
On Jun 4, 2011, at 4:46 AM, Gabriele Romanato wrote:
As always, if you notice anything strange
In my Mac's Safari (latest version) and Firefox (latest version), I noticed a
small detail I've noticed on sites I'm working on.
The letter-spacing for text is IMHO a bit too tight. Reading on
On 6/4/11 10:21 AM, Charles Miller wrote:
On Jun 4, 2011, at 4:46 AM, Gabriele Romanato wrote:
As always, if you notice anything strange
In my Mac's Safari (latest version) and Firefox (latest version), I noticed a
small detail I've noticed on sites I'm working on.
The letter-spacing
On Jun 4, 2011, at 9:42 AM, David Laakso wrote:
Personal Opinion:
Play at being a web designer rather than being a type designer. Do not
letterspace text for desktop. Sometimes when used with discretion and
depending on the font letterspacing of a heading /may/ be appropriate.
This
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